Idle won't start

[python newbie]

You didn't by any chance create a batch routine that sometimes creates a
file by
the name of  "<python dir>\Lib\idlelib\idle.pyw" did you.

"Kerry Neilson" <kmneilso at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ecebe16b.0312141050.4a10fbba at posting.google.com...
> For the past couple of months, Idle won't start when I invoke it.  I
> am at a complete loss for why this is.  When this happens, they python
> command line still starts, and python works fine otherwise.
> Most interesting to me is that a reboot won't fix the problem.  But if
> I just try it again sometime later it will work.  Anyone have any
> ideas?  I'm running python 2.3 on windows 2000 professional.